Message #1076

[ecuworrier]

Friday morning GOOD FRIDAY.... it was a long day i had been up late asked GOD to wake me at 8 i woke at 8 and then went back to sleep and then had 8 minutes to get me to the church on time... i had i confess been dragging my feet on this all week as someone had announced their engagement to someone else in the church previous week and then followed by invite to celebrate said engagement after church a picnic.... hey it should be fun .. buyt me hey is completely unenthused... look at the end of the day let GOD do a Good Job of what GOD wants to do with all that!  but don't count me on on the feeling enthusiastic about it...   i'm pretty protective of the folks i know who are getting engaged .. i wants the best for them and when i don't quite see that though i can still see the value and importance of that relationship stuff well it can look to me a bit like it's jhuman stuff and me has no reason to be watching for the Glory of GOD   ... well sometimes it feels like GOd sets folks up with promises plans experiences and stuff and sometimes all they can see is their desire to get hitched and i'm not saying that there isn't value in stuff... but hey today been hearing some stories and there is a metaphore in this.... here goes one person has a passion for something that they had in their youth they gets married the spouse then says you is not gonna do that! so the person stops .... and it is not until the spouse dies that the person is able to do stuff again and so the person at a seriously impressive age is well into it!... and those who take witness they sits their and both marvels at them for what they is doin at theri age as well as sits and critiques with no real appreciation for a life worth living... tha tpassion is what keeps them going strong!.. on another hand is the very moving account from another who had a passion for something but the spouse was having nowt of that to the extent that they.... well me said why didn't they leave .... and they said for the sake of holding family together for the kids sake but as soon as they was old enough  they was loosed out... and is now happily married to spouse number 2.....  and able to do the stuff that well....  i can't help feeling that those constraints are lurking in peoples marriages where GOD is concerned too .. and i guess i has to give up fighting about that one cos GOD has many a plan B.... it's just frustrating to see well what i see... anyhows i did turn up just in time as it happens for church that is cos they started late.... and me i looked in on the company present and just had to lurk outside .... i couldn't do the liturgy that everyone said together and i couldn't take communion the way they did and i could not feel enthusiastic about the sermon.... here goes it's about refereencing of the two thieves on the cross... now me i feel the christians likes to see things this way:

there was the good thief and the bad thief.... the good theif was good cos he knew he had been  bad ... and he recognised Jesus' innocence and JEsus' Sovereignty that Jesus was at least something very special with ... the theif thus understands the crucifixion better than anyone it is about setting free even though Jesus does not get off his cross and set jhim free....   now why did GOD not do that?.... well GOD did in a way GOD got Jesus off the hook but not before He done the Atonement...

the other guy is gbad bad bad and bad and he is going to hell...

but we don't know anything and not to know anything is a bit more liberating don't you think.....  the thing is Jesus is the Lord that saves  and Jesus is deeper than any of us Jesus knows not just our own thoughts but the others too... and Jesus says nothing about hell for the other guy....   and christians generally like the above model of those that is saved and those that is going tyo hell wonder why!

GOD BLESS!

Peace and Love,

gottago